It's not me calling the US a world leader: it's your own sweet neo-cons. That's who's taken on this mantle. I want the USA to live up to its own billing. I want it to be a player in the world community rather than someone who goes around bullying nations. I want the US to be a part of the UN rather than under-funding it.
Being a world leader means a tad more than doing what I say; it means persuasion, magnanimity, diplomacy. It means less ideology - and believe me Bush is sounding more like Brezhnev every time I hear one more Lysenkoist announcement- more pragmatism.
Of course, pursuing your narrow self-interests will inevitably lead to people carping. Pursuing your narrow self-interest to the extent of invading countries will lead to a lot of pissed-off people.
The US touts itself as the last Super Power, a world leader. It's not about how much you pollute or not. It's about how you set the agenda. By not signing to Kyoto, that's a huge signal to the rest of the world that "you" (the US) don't give a rats arse about it and are quite happy to ride that SUV into oblivion.
parents have to bear their part of the responsibility as well. as family sizes decrease, and income for the middle classes has increased, the temptation to cocoon their children has become irresitible. walk to school? no. all the latest toys? why yes. play outside? it's *far* too dangerous, you've got an xbox.
the answer is...Version Control on independant machines, which is important, as MS Word has a form of VC but that's in the document on the machine. If you're data is that fscking important, make access to this data only through a Version Control system. Simple. Data will always be lost somewhere. People are, well, people. It's just how it is. Banning stuff is silly. You might as well learn to cope with it.
isn't it the people that need protection? if we're talking a long time space - years, say - shouldn't people get protection from particles in space? lacking the protection of the ozone layer, they must be terribly exposed.
british patriotrism, ironically, only really exists in England. Unless you're with a party of ex-squaddies (Army veterans doesn't seem right in a UK context), you rarely get a sense of the flag being praised. And even in England, in the Conservative Club say, it seems a very defensive attitude.
American patriotism seems to contain one big contradiction: the American Revolution seems to have stultified into something unchangeable, something forever stuck in 18th century aspic. Hence, the Daughters Of The Revolution aren't really a revolutionary organisation, far from it. Judge Alito wants to intreprete the Constitution thusly:
"In interpreting the Constitution," Judge Alito said Wednesday, "I think we should look to the text of the Constitution, and we should look to the meaning that someone would have taken from the text of the Constitution at the time of its adoption." (NY Times)
Judge Alito is clearly barking mad. He - and probably most of the neo-cons - wants to treat the constitution as if they were periwigged Enlightenment gentlemen with slaves and obedient wives? What about the amendments which were put in after the 18th Century?
And so on. The Americans. They're different to us.
All flag-ship companies should look to set an example. They after all have the money and resources to fix their own problems. It's not as if Microsoft are short of either.
umm. the *cough*great*cough Visual Studio and, say, most unix gui apps work the same way: VS creates the equiv of sys.exec and runs CL. So much for Active x or whatever it's called this month.
Interesting paper. It brought back all kinds of nightmares:-(
Still, on the strength of one paper, I'm not convinced that the effects would be less than expected. I still think the nuclear winter would play a large part, or indeed the poisoning of the atmosphere by the radiation and fallout.
I agree about life on earth. The bugs will inherit the earth.
you see? there's an assertion you just can't prove until you did it. still. looking at the evidence of the *only* *single* bomb so far, i figure it's pretty much lights out for the territory when the big one goes up.
if you compare the films to pictures of hiroshima, both were optimistic in terms of survivors. it's hard to believe even now that there would be nothing left of the developed world after a full scale nuclear exchange. a few years later, the entire planet would be a graveyard.
No no no, I congratulate *you*, noodly flipness, on the niche that you're building up, particularly in trying to get the last word in. *Your* post-modern religion is more than I can bear. Your dogma is a dogma all of it's speicial ownness. It seems to answer all the questions, except the one, where can I get funding or a decent paying job. I do believe there's a position for teaching philosophy 101 to grandmothers on the other side of Saturn, where the notions of reality, of time and being, of being and nothingness are discussed ad nauseaum.
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It's not me calling the US a world leader: it's your own sweet neo-cons. That's who's taken on this mantle. I want the USA to live up to its own billing. I want it to be a player in the world community rather than someone who goes around bullying nations. I want the US to be a part of the UN rather than under-funding it.
Being a world leader means a tad more than doing what I say; it means persuasion, magnanimity, diplomacy. It means less ideology - and believe me Bush is sounding more like Brezhnev every time I hear one more Lysenkoist announcement- more pragmatism.
Of course, pursuing your narrow self-interests will inevitably lead to people carping. Pursuing your narrow self-interest to the extent of invading countries will lead to a lot of pissed-off people.
The US touts itself as the last Super Power, a world leader. It's not about how much you pollute or not. It's about how you set the agenda. By not signing to Kyoto, that's a huge signal to the rest of the world that "you" (the US) don't give a rats arse about it and are quite happy to ride that SUV into oblivion.
thankyou and goodnight.
parents have to bear their part of the responsibility as well. as family sizes decrease, and income for the middle classes has increased, the temptation to cocoon their children has become irresitible. walk to school? no. all the latest toys? why yes. play outside? it's *far* too dangerous, you've got an xbox.
...you must be in trouble. just watch for the knife.
Oh yes indeedy
And i don't care if is off topic!
the answer is...Version Control on independant machines, which is important, as MS Word has a form of VC but that's in the document on the machine. If you're data is that fscking important, make access to this data only through a Version Control system. Simple. Data will always be lost somewhere. People are, well, people. It's just how it is. Banning stuff is silly. You might as well learn to cope with it.
...support bittorrents directly?
isn't it the people that need protection? if we're talking a long time space - years, say - shouldn't people get protection from particles in space? lacking the protection of the ozone layer, they must be terribly exposed.
i thought it was still yesterday
...there you go, that's perl 6. Next...
there's also a full range of supporting hardware, with tivoli and isongbook. it looks like a money-spinner to me.
british patriotrism, ironically, only really exists in England. Unless you're with a party of ex-squaddies (Army veterans doesn't seem right in a UK context), you rarely get a sense of the flag being praised. And even in England, in the Conservative Club say, it seems a very defensive attitude.
American patriotism seems to contain one big contradiction: the American Revolution seems to have stultified into something unchangeable, something forever stuck in 18th century aspic. Hence, the Daughters Of The Revolution aren't really a revolutionary organisation, far from it. Judge Alito wants to intreprete the Constitution thusly:
"In interpreting the Constitution," Judge Alito said Wednesday, "I think we should look to the text of the Constitution, and we should look to the meaning that someone would have taken from the text of the Constitution at the time of its adoption."
(NY Times)
Judge Alito is clearly barking mad. He - and probably most of the neo-cons - wants to treat the constitution as if they were periwigged Enlightenment gentlemen with slaves and obedient wives? What about the amendments which were put in after the 18th Century?
And so on. The Americans. They're different to us.
opera seems to represent RSS feed like email
All flag-ship companies should look to set an example. They after all have the money and resources to fix their own problems. It's not as if Microsoft are short of either.
...getting a fscking dupe sensor
Massive Slashdot Denial Of Service
No private institutions are above the law, even contractual obligations can be overturned by the courts.
umm. the *cough*great*cough Visual Studio and, say, most unix gui apps work the same way: VS creates the equiv of sys.exec and runs CL. So much for Active
x or whatever it's called this month.
all i need now is me exoskeleton..
Interesting paper. It brought back all kinds of nightmares :-(
Still, on the strength of one paper, I'm not convinced that the effects would be less than expected. I still think the nuclear winter would play a large part, or indeed the poisoning of the atmosphere by the radiation and fallout.
I agree about life on earth. The bugs will inherit the earth.
"passion to breed a form in shimmer of rain-blur"
you see? there's an assertion you just can't prove until you did it. still. looking at the evidence of the *only* *single* bomb so far, i figure it's pretty much lights out for the territory when the big one goes up.
if you compare the films to pictures of hiroshima, both were optimistic in terms of survivors. it's hard to believe even now that there would be nothing left of the developed world after a full scale nuclear exchange. a few years later, the entire planet would be a graveyard.
True, true. It's a shame that your dogma isn't as useful, and you have to go around ambulance-chasing geeks.
No no no, I congratulate *you*, noodly flipness, on the niche that you're building up, particularly in trying to get the last word in. *Your* post-modern religion is more than I can bear. Your dogma is a dogma all of it's speicial ownness. It seems to answer all the questions, except the one, where can I get funding or a decent paying job. I do believe there's a position for teaching philosophy 101 to grandmothers on the other side of Saturn, where the notions of reality, of time and being, of being and nothingness are discussed ad nauseaum.